Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-04

| Inc oiuesI innan'Cant never knew OF
such windy winter rs this has been.
There were no religious services last
Sunday on account of bad weather and
want of wood.
| Kane Baldwin has a couple Of Ben.
Morris flyers down at the Junction
race track which he is training for the
fall races.
Parties desiring dental work done will
find J. II. NJ C lille at his office in the
drug store everv day between the hours
Of 8 A. NJ. and 4 p. NJ.
Pete Smiths team ran away down
on Salmon river last week and scat
tered the wagon In sections for two
miles along the canyon.
There is much virtue in ashes when
thrown on slippery sidewalk. hut it
is diff emit matter to make the people
of Grangeville believe it.
Wheat is selling at 90 cents {. o. h. in
Lewiston, and may go higher, but az
the farmers sold the crop last fall the
advance won't help the country much.
The increased danger from fire dur
ing the old season ought to suggest to
every hou|eholder and business ntn
the necessity f,r taking more th III tn.
usual precautions.
Tom Pearson brought M from White
Bird last Monday l. ,nis b mher, who
has been at deaths door for some time
past with pneumonia. He is better
now and is stopping at Cy Overman's.
Special mention should have been
made of Miss Susie Markham, Mrs.
Hall. Mrs. Mclean and Mr.. New illiams
who did hard and successful work in
preparing for the school entertainment
last week.
How much pleasanter this world
would be to live in were it as easy TO
go to bed at night AS 1t is to remain
there in the morning; as easy to get up
IN the morning as it Is to talk of get.
ting up when you 20 to bed.
The Louisville Cou,ier-Journal tells
democratic office seekers that their
policy is to wait. Tue editor has evl-
DENLY been reading the story OF the
small buy who saw man being chased
by bear and advised him to run
like hill.
John Flynn, of Graves creek, has
gone to Georgia, where he is inter-
esled in collaborating quartz ledge,
which is said to prospect well. There
are five owners, who bought eighty
acres on which the lead WAS found,
for $1,000.
The Cainese residents of this bury
wound up their new year festivities on
Sunday afternoon by popping 10000
tire Crackers and expod,ng dirty bombs.
TIE c-lestials kept open house all day,
and white visitors were hospitality
entertained.
The bllzz rd put its shoulder to l.. p.
Bruwn's Dig barn on the bIg meadow,
las Sunday morning, and threw it over
on twenly-nlne head If cattle which
are being Kept up. OIly one calf Was
injured, which Was fortunate anu
almost miraculous escape, US the barn
was 120A50 ieet.
A Pniladelphis paper thinks it Curl
GUS that someUody hasn't Invented
soulet hing To take the sIpperyneos out
of ice. 10 our thinking all IN, eution
TO take the slipperyness out OF men 10
most needed ami would be uIucn more
protIable, because men are slippery the
year round, while We are only troubled
with ice III the winter.
Friend iiawley exhibited the most
unique rIg of the siclshlns season In
the shape of his last truLter hitcled to
beef hide, which went gliding along
With a load of passengers ike Hash oi
creased lightning. We were invited to
lake ride, Dut declined, as We get
equal sport sticking our feet III tuo OF
snow and hiring a small boy To jingle II
COW bell.
The altitude of Camas prairie Is over
5000 feet above sea level, and yet We
have had no frost tins winter hard
enough To freeze the ground more than
two Inches deep. Mr. has the mer-
curry been lower tnau 2Uo above Zero all
this winter. Wnen The people of the
blizzard states understand the beauties
of our warm chinook weather, winch
brings us spriug in nid-winter, tney
wall ureak their uecks III their hurry ~
yet To this great and glorious country
of ours, where the government sells the
finest land III the world AT II dollar anu
two bits an acre, aud where the climate
Is unexcelled Tor moderation anu salu-
urlty. There Is soll aud climate, ~oUd,
water and horse feed for thuusanus Oh
this lovely G. ,tnas prairie, where The